I am looking to setup a public DNS server and I found this DNS server

https://technitium.com/dns/

Does anyone know what the risks are of exposing the DNS port to the internet? How likely am I to get compromised? Is this a really bad idea?

  • Moonrise2473English
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    11 months ago

    I use technitium but it’s like pihole, designed for a few concurrent users in a local network? Instead you want that anyone in the world can use your DNS?

    But you would only attract bad actors, normal users won’t use a random DNS server as it could redirect specific sites to phishing pages

      • Moonrise2473English
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        11 months ago

        Ah you want to host a name server

        That’s the hardest thing ever to self host, can’t just use the free name server service from the registrar or cloudflare?

        IMHO even the most dedicated sysadmin wouldn’t even think to self host that